Minister for Works and Transport Prof Makame Mbarawa (right) and France’s minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Attraction Olivier Becht show documents after signing a Bilateral Air Services Agreement in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO | MICHAEL MATEMANG
While Tanzania’s major exports to France are tobacco, beans, avocados, fish, cotton, vegetables, raw hides and skins, on the other hand, the country’s major imports from France are airplane spare parts, aircraft engines, industrial sugar, laboratory reagents, vaccines for veterinary medicine and animal feed machinery.
With the Basa agreement expected to support the country’s ambition to expand the reach of its airlines, it will facilitate the movement of people and cargo.
